World War II
During World War II, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai was a prime target of the Nazi authorities in German occupied Poland.
He managed to escape to Palestine in 1940 with several of his sons and began to slowly rebuild his Hasidic dynasty.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)